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Conclusion

The Coexistion Protocol embodies a visionary approach to rethinking economic systems, focusing on fairness, transparency, and decentralization. While its principles resonate with the evolving landscape of decentralized technologies and the growing desire for equitable economic participation, the feasibility of its implementation is contingent on addressing several complex challenges. The success of such a protocol will depend on careful planning, user experience design, robust governance structures, and a willingness to adapt to the lessons learned during implementation.

In summary, while the Coexistion Protocol presents a realistic and hopeful blueprint for the future, its practicality hinges on overcoming significant hurdles related to implementation, governance, economic sustainability, adoption, and regulatory compliance.

Challenges and Concerns

1. Implementation Complexity: While the protocol aims to simplify decentralized systems, the actual implementation of a robust and efficient decentralized framework can be complex. Ensuring scalability, security, and user-friendliness will be significant challenges, especially as the system grows.

2. Governance and Decision-Making: Achieving true democratic governance in a decentralized system can be difficult. Ensuring that all voices are heard and that decisions are made effectively without falling into the trap of inefficiency or gridlock is a critical concern. The proposed consensus-based decision-making might face challenges in practice, particularly in larger groups.

3. Economic Viability: The non-speculative value system represents an interesting shift from traditional economic models. However, establishing a stable and sustainable economic model that rewards contributions equitably while preventing exploitation and ensuring long-term viability is a complex task. The challenge of ensuring that value is accurately tracked and distributed can be significant.

4. Adoption and Transition: The transition from traditional economic systems to a decentralized framework like the Coexistion Protocol will require significant cultural and systemic shifts. Gaining buy-in from established institutions, businesses, and individuals accustomed to traditional hierarchical structures may be challenging. Moreover, potential resistance from those who benefit from the current power dynamics may hinder adoption.

5. Regulatory Environment: Decentralized systems often face uncertain regulatory landscapes, and the Coexistion Protocol would likely attract scrutiny from regulators. Navigating legal frameworks while maintaining the principles of decentralization and inclusivity could be a significant hurdle.

6. Technological Barriers: The reliance on technology means that access to the Coexistion Protocol could be limited for those without the necessary digital literacy or access to technology. Ensuring equitable access to the system will be crucial for achieving its goals.

The Coexistion Protocol presents an ambitious vision for a decentralized economic framework aimed at fostering fairness, transparency, and inclusivity. Its goals of equitable work allocation, decentralized governance, and a non-speculative value system are indeed compelling and align with ongoing trends in the digital economy, particularly those driven by blockchain technology and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). However, while the concept is innovative and appealing, several factors must be considered regarding its feasibility and realism.

Strengths and Opportunities

1. Decentralization and Transparency: By leveraging blockchain and decentralized governance models, the protocol can enhance transparency and trust among participants. This is a crucial element in today's economic environment, where trust in institutions is waning.

2. Merit-Based Allocation: The emphasis on merit-based work allocation can potentially democratize access to opportunities, allowing individuals to participate and thrive based on their skills rather than their connections or backgrounds.

3. Integrated Education: The focus on embedding education and skill development within the economic framework is particularly relevant in addressing skill gaps and preparing workers for evolving market demands.

4. Collaborative Ownership: The idea of shared ownership and collective responsibility can foster a sense of community and shared purpose, encouraging collaboration over competition.

ChatGPT seems to approve!

Also, for Express Entry the age limit is 55. Not sure what PR pathways exist for those older.

Though, while not permanent, theoretically you can just keep renewing a work permit under NAFTA. There's no age limit to the permit, so as long as you're able to work (and you have a qualifying employer and meet other requirements) you should be able to do this to stay in Canada indefinitely.

If you're a US (or Mexican) citizen you don't even need LMIA, you might be eligible under NAFTA.

But I work in tech, and when I did this, I found it quite challenging to find an employer who would be willing to do this. Usually the employer needs an immigration lawyer and has to be set up with IRCC (i.e. the Canadian gov't) to do this. An LMIA - if you need one - would be even more paperwork for them.

That's kind of the point though - Canadians and the GoC can be the same, or even just a tad bit worse, than they were say twenty years ago - but at the rate things are going south, down South, it's still better.

Say before you had a choice between a $100 bill and a cheque for $101, so you might have gone for the cheque. But now you know that the one behind the cheque is nearly bankrupt, so of course it makes sense to change your mind here, even if the $100 bill hasn't improved or changed much at all. It's merely become a better deal by comparison, relatively speaking.

As a practical matter - waiting a few weeks isn't so bad. Most folks will need longer than this to get things wrapped up, and I see some folks saying here that they can't make it until 2026. But no harm in putting feelers out now and making plans, since when it comes to being prepared, it's best to be prepared early.

And to the OP - thank you for your service.

I'm worried that this might be a false sense of security. Mbin can, and will, show this as "reputation points". See for example, https://fedia.io/u/@wjs018@piefed.social - it's public, you don't even need to have an account there to see it.

So someone could take a look at https://fedia.io/m/piefed/_meta@piefed.social/t/1970895/comments-on-the-points-in-https-join-piefed-social-2024-06-22-piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities and check out the reputation of other commenters on this thread if they wanted to.

Likewise, one can view who upvoted or downvoted a post or comment, for example, https://fedia.io/m/piefed/_meta@piefed.social/t/1970895/comments-on-the-points-in-https-join-piefed-social-2024-06-22-piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/comment/9993522/favourites (and again don't even need to log in to see that info)

I've seen something similar, where someone on lemmy left a very long (certainly more than 5000 characters) comment as a reply to mine, and it never federated to me. It could have just been a one-off glitch but it made me wonder if there's a length limit to federation as well...

I noticed though how easy it is to replay activitypub events in pyfedi - i used this once to recreate a deleted posts along with all of its comments and up/downvotes on my instance.

If a lemmy instance somehow had all of its server logs preserved, it might not be too difficult to craft them into replayable events for pyfedi, allowing all the posts and comments and votes to get recreated. It's of limited utility (most lemmy servers would have rorated aways most of their logs long ago) but still an interesting thing to try out..

This is really cool. Thinking about turning the api on on my own instance to give it a whirl..

Texas joined the US later and has a provision that they can vote themselves out of the United States again if they choose.

This is wrong. See https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/29/texas-secession/

So if Alberta voters are hoping for the same provision, that they can back out if things go south (pun not intended), that's very wrong.

Don't be fooled.